And why are you giving Trump so much credit? How about the European leaders who are not kissing Putin's ass? Give them some credit too. What has trump done to end the war? Other than host meetings?
After Sucking Up To Putin But Getting Nothing, Trump Meets With Zelenskyy And Allies
Two hundred and ten days after the day he said he would end Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, President
Donald Trump again failed to do so Monday.
“I think that President Putin wants to find an answer, too, and we’ll see. And in a certain period of time, not very far from now, a week or two weeks, we’re going to know whether or not we’re going to solve this,” Trump said,
slipping into his familiar time frame of other goals he never accomplished, such as the release of his plans for health care or infrastructure — and one he has previously provided multiple times for how long it would take to know if Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was serious about ending his war.
Seems like Trump is just hoping the war ends on his watch so he can take credit for it.
there is no indication that Putin is interested in stopping either his invasion force or his nightly drone and missile attacks against civilian targets.
Putin’s condition for doing so is for Ukraine to give him the land in the eastern part of the country that he has been unable to take by force for three and a half years.
Soon afterward, it was announced that Zelenskyy would come to Washington to meet with Trump on Monday — possibly to prevent Putin’s explanation and rationale for his invasion from taking root in Trump’s mind and becoming his own.
Rutte, who praised Trump repeatedly at June’s NATO summit in The Hague as part of an overall strategy by European leaders of flattering him to win him over, continued Monday. “I really want to thank you, president of the United States, dear Donald, for the fact that you, as I said before, broke the deadlock basically with President Putin by starting that dialogue,” Rutte said.
Trump, for his part, continued to claim that Putin likes and respects him, despite all
evidence to the contrary. “I think he wants to make a deal for me,” he
told the others as they waited for the press pool to be escorted into the East Room.
His comment was captured by a microphone that was, evidently unbeknownst to him, already live.
Why Trump believes that, if he actually does, is not readily apparent.
Trump essentially took Russia’s side in its invasion of its neighbor during his first few months in office after having called Putin “savvy” and a “genius” in the days after the war began in February 2022. In recent months, Trump has said he has become exasperated by Putin’s continued attacks on Ukrainian civilians. But while he has spoken about holding Putin accountable for the slaughter, thus far, he has done little or nothing to achieve that.
On the flight out to Alaska, Trump said the whole point of the trip was to get a ceasefire. “I want to see a ceasefire rapidly. I don’t know if it’s going to be today, but I’m not going to be happy if it’s not today,”
Trump attacked and insulted the Ukrainian leader during his February visit, so this time, Zelenskyy brought friends along.
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